Blog vs. Wikis

A blog is a website on which an individual or group of users record opinions and information on a regular basis. It is commonly a bunch of information posted by an individual and commented by a group of users that want to share their opinion on the subject of matter. There is a selection of different types of blogs. Blogs can range from photography, food, entertainment, news, religion, and etc. For an example, Tumblr is a popular blog site in which you can post pictures, quotes, audio, and video and have your followers repost, like, and comment on them. Blogs are places to communicate on any topic you will like to address. It allows you to express your thoughts and feelings on anything on your mind. In the article “Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid” by Michael Wilson shows how blogs play an important role in communicating to people and getting them aware of a situation. The blog in the article allowed people to post and comment on the dangerous crack houses and people in their neighborhood. The comments and posts brought awareness to the situation. This caused the police to lock up the injustice people who lived in the crack house with the charge of drug possession.  It shows how the communication through blogs can bring awareness to getting protection in our society.  A wiki is a web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content.  A wiki is a collaboration of users that can continuously revise and edit a post to their liking. For an example, Wikipedia is a wiki that any one post and edit information on many topics. Wikis can be very inaccurate so you have to be careful where you get your research from. In the wiki “Wiki” by Wikipedia states that “A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.”  This shows that wiki original content can be edited by its users while in a blog the content can only be edited by the individual who made it. Blog collaboration comes into effect by the comments and opinions left by users in reply to the post. A new use of a wiki that have not been done yet should be the display on the original content of the wiki before it ever been edited.